Stage director, choreographer and theatre teacher Roberto Aldorasi studied folk
dance history under Giuseppe Gala and took degrees in Theatre Anthropology
and the History of Musical Theatre at the universities of Naples and
Rome. Aldorasi gained his first experience as a theatre director under
the guidance of Francesco Niccolini. He subsequently worked at
the Odin Teatret in Holstebro (Denmark) together with Tage Larsen and
Donald Kitt; he has worked on productions by Eugenio Barba of Ur-Hamlet
and The Marriage of Medea among other theatre projects.
In 2008 together with Pierangelo Pompa the choreographer founded
the company Laboratorio di Altamira. Aldorasi has widely travelled
throughout the Far East and the Pacific, studying the theory and
technique of oriental theatre. He stages amateur performances and street dance
shows in Italy, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Spain, Morocco, Senegal,
Lebanon, Syria, the USA and Brazil.